The @_ solution is really the most ugly and hard to type of the three
possibilities.

I currently only rarely use @_ *directly*. I C<shift> and assign a lot
instead. Indeed both are still unnecessarily complex and I once gain take
back my word.

I'm still convinced my remark _partly_ applies in the sense that the
overall impression is that a vast majority of most common needs is
addressed by a *subset* of the current features and trying to stuff all
them in has brought in quite a lot of discussions of which I'm not even
sure if they've all settled down.

Michele
--

[are there] Any areas of mathematical knowledge or skills that we lost?

Yes, but I don't remember what they are.
- Kevin Foltinek in sci.math [edited]